Recommended Reading

Read more about the 2005-2006 selections:

• Asian American X, edited by Arar Han and John Hsu
• Asian American Dreams, by Helen Zia
• Girls for Breakfast, by Dave Yoo
• The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri

Read more about the 2006-2007 selections:

• American Knees, by Shawn Wong
• Dogeaters, by Jessica Hagedorn
• Outsiders Within: , edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin
• Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American, edited by Vickie Nam

Lending Library

The Asian American Center Lending Library is a growing collection of fiction and non-fiction works about the Asian American experience. All books can be borrowed from the Center for a period of two weeks.

Anthologies and Short Stories

• Asian American X, edited by Arar Han and John Hsu
• Catamaran: South Asian American Writing
• Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the World, edited by Jessica Hageorn
• Half + Half, edited by Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn
• Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Mixed, edited by Chandra Prasad
• On a Bed of Rice: An Asian American Erotic Feast, edited by Geraldine Kudaka
• The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed Heritage Asian Americans, edited by Theresa Williams-Leon
• The Troublemaker and Other Saints, by Christina Chiu
• Yell-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American, edited by Vickie Nam
• Yellow: Stories, by Don Lee

Novels

• American Knees, by Shawn Wong
• Blu's Hanging, by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
• Clay Walls, by Kim Ronyoung
• Dogeaters, by Jessica Hagedorn
• Donald Duk, by Frank Chin
• Girls for Breakfast, by David Yoo
• M. Butterfly, by David Henry Hwang (play)
• The Namesake, by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Native Speaker, by Chang-Rae Lee
• One Tribe, by M. Evelina Galang
• Seventeen Syllables, by Hisaye Yamamoto (poetry)

Memoirs & Biographies

• The Accidental Asian, by Eric Liu
• First They Killed My Father, by Loung Ung
• Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama, by Diane C. Fujino
• I'm the One that I Want, by Margaret Cho
• My Country Versus Me, by Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia

Non-Fiction & Asian American Studies

• Asian American Panethnicity: Bridging Institutions and Identities, by Yen Le Espiritu
• Asian American Studies, edited by Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu and Min Song
• Asian American Youth, by Jennifer Lee
• Asian Americans, by Sucheng Chan
• Asian Americans: The Movement and the Moment, edited by Steve Louie and Glenn Omatsu
• The Chinese in America, by Iris Chang
• Forever Foreigners or Honorary Whites, by Mia Tuan
• The Karma of Brown Folks, by Vijay Prashad
• A Larger Memory: A History of our Diversity, with Voices, by Ronald Takaki
• Screaming Monkeys, by M. Evelina Galang
• The State of Asian America, by Karin Aguilar-San Juan
• Strangers from a Different Shore, by Ronald Takaki
• Unraveling the Model Minority Stereotype: Listening to Asian American Youth, by Stacey J. Lee
• Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, by Frank Wu

Asian American Women

• Asian/Pacific Islander Women: A Historical Anthology, edited by Shirley Hune and Gail Nomura
• Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling: Career Strategies for Asians, by Jane Hyun
• Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire, edited by Sonia Shah
• Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women, edited by Elaine Kim
• Warrior Lessons: An Asian American Woman's Journey into Power, by Phoebe Eng